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The Feminine Reclaimed

The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

By: Stevie Davies

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The Feminine Reclaimed

The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

By: Stevie Davies

The Feminine Reclaimed breaks new ground in the field of Renaissance scholarship. Stevie Davies considers the feminine principle as it was developed through the humanist and Neoplatonic revival of ancient classical learning and from this perspective approaches the major works of the three great literary figures of the English Renaissance—Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Through close, perceptive readings of their most crucial works, informed by a familiarity with the whole range of their context in the European literature and thought of their time, Stevie Davies is able to demonstrate the great importance of the feminine principle in the consciousness of these writers and their age, a time of political, religious, and social upheaval in which perceptions of woman and her status in society underwent momentous changes. She analyzes guiding symbols, mythical allusions, and literary structures in major works by the three poets to show that this rediscovered image of the feminine was incorporated into The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's last plays, and Paradise Lost in such a manner as to create an alternative system of values which either redefined or criticized the patriarchal structures of the contemporary world.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813187729

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9780813187723

The Knox Legacy

By: Stevie Nicholson

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The Knox Legacy

By: Stevie Nicholson

Born into a small mining town in the early twentieth century, Mary Knox’s life was never easy. When her father died in a tragic mining accident, leaving her mother to descend into madness, Mary’s world shattered. Thrust into the harsh realities of the welfare system, she endured the unforgiving conditions of the workhouse and orphanage before being indentured as a seamstress at the tender age of fourteen. Determined to rise above her circumstances, Mary spent her teenage years working tirelessly, her persistence and talent rewarded with a position of authority far beyond her years. However, her success was short-lived, as corruption, a failed relationship with a married man, and theft tore her career asunder. In the face of adversity, Mary emerged transformed, her character now imbued with ruthlessness and the ability to think one step ahead. Most importantly, she learned to manipulate the sexual weaknesses of men, becoming the predator rather than the prey. A marriage of convenience provided the opportunity she needed to fully exploit her newfound commitment to success. Through sheer determination, corruption, and cunning, Mary Knox built an empire that would become her only child’s inheritance, establishing the Knox Legacy. This gripping tale of resilience, ambition, and the indomitable human spirit showcases one woman’s unwavering resolve to create a better life for herself and her descendants, no matter the cost.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1035866285

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9781035866281

Basic Instinct

By: Stevie Simkin

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Basic Instinct

By: Stevie Simkin

Paul Verhoeven's 1992 thriller Basic Instinct - starring Michael Douglas as a police detective and Sharon Stone as the femme fatale Catherine Tramell - was one of the first mainstream 'erotic thrillers', a film which shifted the boundaries for graphic representations of sex in Hollywood cinema. It remains a significant milestone in film censorship and controversy. In his fascinating study, the first in-depth account of the film, Stevie Simkin explores the unrest and protest that Basic Instinct sparked in the gay, lesbian and feminist communities in the US, incensed by what they saw as the script's homophobia and misogyny. Simkin considers the social and cultural context in which Basic Instinct was made, examining the film's troubled production history, the battles with censors, and its reception. He offers a number of readings of the movie, looking at its representation of bisexuality and the depiction of a 'transgressive' female protagonist. He also focuses on key sequences, including the infamous interrogation scene, and details the cuts demanded by the censors, resulting in different UK and US versions. In conclusion, Simkin considers the legacy of Basic Instinct, and its enduring effect on media representations of the violent woman. STEVIE SIMKIN is Reader in Drama and Film at the University of Winchester, UK. His publications include work on cult television, popular music, and Renaissance drama. He is the author of, amongst other works, A Preface to Marlowe (1999), Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook (2001), Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (2005), and, also in the Controversies series, a book on the Peckinpah film, Straw Dogs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137296097

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9781137296092

Skills Of Clinical Supervision For Nurses

A Practical Guide for Supervisees, Clinical Supervisors and Managers

By: Bond, Meg,Holland, Stevie

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Skills Of Clinical Supervision For Nurses

A Practical Guide for Supervisees, Clinical Supervisors and Managers

By: Bond, Meg,Holland, Stevie

This is the first practical book on clinical supervision for nurses. It offers ways of understanding the context of clinical supervision in nursing and pinpoints organizational and personal pitfalls that can sabotage its effectiveness.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335238157

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9780335238156

Prizing Scottish Literature

By: Stevie Marsden

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Prizing Scottish Literature

By: Stevie Marsden

This cultural history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. It is one piece of the wider cultural award puzzle and illustrates how, far from being parochial or niche, lesser-known awards, whose histories may be yet untold, play their own role in the circulation of cultural value through the consecration of literary value. The study of the Society’s Book of the Year and First Book of the Year Awards not only highlights how important connections between literary awards and national culture and identity are within prize culture and how literary awards, and their founding institutions, can be products of the socio-political and cultural milieu in which they form, but this study also illustrates how existing literary award scholarship has only begun to scratch the surface of the complexities of the phenomenon. This book promotes a new approach to considering literary prizes, proposing that the concept of the literary awards hierarchy can contribute to emerging and developing discourses pertaining to literary, and indeed cultural, prizes more broadly.

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Anthem Press

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178527483X

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9781785274831

Mobile Devices and Technology in Higher Education

By: Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff,Stevie M. Munz,Scott Titsworth

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Mobile Devices and Technology in Higher Education

By: Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff,Stevie M. Munz,Scott Titsworth

This book examines key issues at the intersection of education and technology by addressing the question that most educators face—how do we use technology to engage students in the learning process and enhance learning? Problematizing the view that technology is the default solution to a host of problems facing education, while also recognizing that technology has an important place in a variety of education levels, the book provides readers with clear insights on technology and learning from a variety of perspectives from communication studies, education, and related disciplines. This volume is an essential read for scholars and teachers working in the area of elementary education. It will also be of interest to academics working in the area of education, postsecondary education, and learning and can be used as an ancillary text in graduate-level seminars.

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Routledge

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1000709159

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9781000709155

Revenge Tragedy

By: Stevie Simkin

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Revenge Tragedy

By: Stevie Simkin

Revenge has been an issue in all societies from ancient times to the present day. In western culture, the revenge plot has been one of the linchpins of narrative structure, it is central to much Greek tragedy and was immensely popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres. In this volume Stevie Simkin has collected essays on five plays which are representative of this genre: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Changeling, The White Devil and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore. These plays are a rich source of ideas about Renaissance society and politics; recurrent issues include sexuality, the complex relations of gender and power, and the relationship between the individual and the state. The collection as a whole demonstrates a variety of recent critical approaches to the genre, including feminist, psychoanalytic, new historicist and cultural materialist viewpoints, inspiring students to revisit these plays and to engage directly with the politics of the past and present, and the ways in which they interrelate.

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268

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230213979

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9780230213975

Unrequited Infatuations

A Memoir

By: Stevie Van Zandt

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Unrequited Infatuations

A Memoir

By: Stevie Van Zandt

Uncover never-before-told stories in this epic tale of self-discovery by a Rock n Roll disciple and member of the E Street Band. What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over and over again how Rock and Roll has the power to change the world for the better? This story. The first true heartbeat of Unrequited Infatuations is the moment when Stevie Van Zandt trades in his devotion to the Baptist religion for an obsession with Rock and Roll. Groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones created new ideas of community, creative risk, and principled rebellion. They changed him forever. While still a teenager, he met Bruce Springsteen, a like-minded outcast/true believer who became one of his most important friends and bandmates. As Miami Steve, Van Zandt anchored the E Street Band as they conquered the Rock and Roll world. And then, in the early '80s, Van Zandt stepped away from E Street to embark on his own odyssey. He refashioned himself as Little Steven, a political songwriter and performer, fell in love with Maureen Santoro who greatly expanded his artistic palette, and visited the world's hot spots as an artist/journalist to not just better understand them, but to help change them. Most famously, he masterminded the recording of "Sun City," an anti-apartheid anthem that sped the demise of South Africa's institutionalized racism and helped get Nelson Mandela out of prison. By the '90s, Van Zandt had lived at least two lives—one as a mainstream rocker, one as a hardcore activist. It was time for a third. David Chase invited Van Zandt to be a part of his new television show, the Sopranos—as Silvio Dante, he was the unconditionally loyal consiglieri who sat at the right hand of Tony Soprano (a relationship that oddly mirrored his real-life relationship with Bruce Springsteen). Underlying all of Van Zandt's various incarnations was a devotion to preserving the centrality of the arts, especially the endangered species of Rock. In the twenty-first century, Van Zandt founded a groundbreaking radio show (Little Steven's Underground Garage), created the first two 24/7 branded music channels on SiriusXM (Underground Garage and Outlaw Country), started a fiercely independent record label (Wicked Cool), and developed a curriculum to teach students of all ages through the medium of music history. He also rejoined the E Street Band for what has now been a twenty-year victory lap. Unrequited Infatuations chronicles the twists and turns of Stevie Van Zandt's always surprising life. It is more than just the testimony of a globe-trotting nomad, more than the story of a groundbreaking activist, more than the odyssey of a spiritual seeker, and more than a master class in rock and roll (not to mention a dozen other crafts). It's the best book of its kind because it's the only book of its kind. **Instant International Bestseller, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller**

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479

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Hachette Books

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0306925419

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9780306925412

Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag

By: Stevie Chick

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Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag

By: Stevie Chick

They were the pioneers of American hardcore, forming in California in 1978 and splitting up 8 years later leaving behind them a trail of blood, carnage and brutal, brilliant music. Throughout the years they fought with the police, record industry and their own fans. This is the band's story from the inside, drawing upon exclusive interviews with the group's members, their contemporaries and the groups who were inspired by them. It's also the story of American hardcore music, from the perspective of the group who did more to take the sound to the clubs, squats and community halls of America than any other.

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498

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Omnibus Press

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0857120646

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9780857120649

On the Farm

Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women

By: Stevie Cameron

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On the Farm

Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women

By: Stevie Cameron

Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told. Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police - and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton - such as from Pickton's long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement's refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.

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Vintage Canada

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0676975852

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9780676975857

When We Were the Boys

Coming of Age on Rod Stewart's Out of Order Tour

By: Stevie Salas

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When We Were the Boys

Coming of Age on Rod Stewart's Out of Order Tour

By: Stevie Salas

This book is a backstage pass to the ups, downs, and all-out craziness of arena rock—deep discussions with Rod Stewart, jamming with legends like Mick Jagger and Justin Timberlake, gaining groupies, and striking out solo. Stevie Salas was one of many boys coming of age in the 1980s—when the American dream was rock superstardom. As lead guitarist for a San Diego band, Salas played backyard parties and school dances and even scored the music for the cult classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. When he auditioned for Rod Stewart—where he was the youngest band member by a decade—Salas’s life truly hit a turning point. Salas pulls no punches to describe the initial skepticism and hazing he faced as the youngest member of Stewart’s band, the night he stood up for himself on the tour plane, and the emotional late-night talk with Rod Stewart that restored the frontman’s faith in his young, untested guitar player and his new group that was struggling to find its groove. Yet they became a band of brothers and formed a camaraderie they share to this day. When We Were the Boys revolves around the year Salas began as an inexperienced musical prodigy and finished as a seasoned rock ’n’ roll veteran—more mature as a man and musician.

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287

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1589799895

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9781589799899

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Applications for Depth Profiling and Surface Characterization

By: Fred Stevie

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Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Applications for Depth Profiling and Surface Characterization

By: Fred Stevie

This book was written to explain a technique that requires an understanding of many details in order to properly obtain and interpret the data obtained. It also will serve as a reference for those who need to provide SIMS data. The book has over 200 figures and the references allow one to trace development of SIMS and understand the many details of the technique.

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Momentum Press

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1606505890

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9781606505892

Emily Brontë

By: Stevie Davies

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Emily Brontë

By: Stevie Davies

Available for the first time in the United States a new series of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers. Drawing upon the mast recent thinking in English studies, each book considers biographical material, examines recent criticism, includes a detailed bibliography, and offers a concise but challenging reappraisal of a writer's major work. Published in the U. K. by Northcote House in association with The British Council.

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Writers and Their Work (Paperb

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0746308345

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9780746308349

Impassioned Clay

By: Stevie Davies

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Impassioned Clay

By: Stevie Davies

When Olivia's mother dies and her grave is dug in the back garden of the family home, the skeleton of a seventeenth-century woman is uncovered beneath the layers of Cheshire clay. The remains are crushed, the neck broken and the bones fragile and decayed. But one thing remains intact, a scold's bridle. Only when Olivia delves back into history to unearth the story of this silenced woman does she begin to understand her own passions."--Back cover

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Women's Press (UK)

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0704346591

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9780704346598

Pedaling To Hawaii

A Human Powered Odyssey

By: Stevie Smith

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Pedaling To Hawaii

A Human Powered Odyssey

By: Stevie Smith

An amazing and deeply insightful account of how two guys decided to embark upon the unthinkable: an attempt to circumnavigate the globe using just human-powered means. On a rainy, miserable morning in Paris, a twenty-something bureaucrat decides there must be more to life than dull office work. Stevie Smith tries to figure out what he could do of great significance and hit upon the notion of a trip around the world using only human power—no motors, no sails, no balloons—maybe the last great first. With no experience, no particular expedition skills, and no money, the adventure begins. A pedal-powered boat, a bike, in-line skates, and a lot of non-heroics take Stevie and his buddy, Jason, where no one has gone before. No travel writing has more accurately captured the old adage, "it's the journey that matters, not the destination." Therein lies the simple beauty of this entertaining travel tale—a search for simplicity, integrity, and freedom.

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320

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Countryman Press

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0881507393

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9780881507393

John Donne

By: Stevie Davies

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John Donne

By: Stevie Davies

An accessible introduction to the full range of Donne's poetry which challenges the assumptions of traditional readings of his work.

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Liverpool University Press

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0746307381

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9780746307380

A Century of Troubles

1600-1700

By: Stevie Davies

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A Century of Troubles

1600-1700

By: Stevie Davies

To accompany a season of drama documentaries on Channel 4, Stevie Davies tells the political and social history of England in the 17th century.

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075226186X

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9780752261867

The Feminine Reclaimed

The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

By: Stevie Davies

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The Feminine Reclaimed

The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813187729

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9780813187723

Kith and Kin

By: Stevie Davies

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Kith and Kin

By: Stevie Davies

Stevie Davies's KITH & KIN is a moving, scalpel-sharp story of close family relationships...The writing is urgent and surprising, the tale at its most hilarious when it is bitter and bizarre...I couldn't put this book down until I had finished it' Patricia Duncker Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family. But their passionate friendship comes under threat as they reach adolescence in the heady atmosphere of the Sixties - a decade in which the conventions of family and kinship are overturned. Years later, as Mara begins to confront the questions surrounding Frankie's death, she is drawn back into their secret past and the struggles of a generation betrayed by its own values.

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Phoenix House

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0753820188

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9780753820186

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